NC’s new Lt. Gov. and his wacky crusades

This morning’s edition of the Weekly Briefing[1] shines a little more light on a subject that a handful of obervers have highlighted in recent months — namely, the rather bizarre passions and crusades of North Carolina’s Lt. Governor-elect, Dan Forest.

For instance, Forest serves as the co-director of a nonprofit that purports to rate giant corporate retailers on their “pornography” policies. In the group’s new “Faith-friendly Christmas Guide” it informs readers that the giant retailer Sears gets very low marks in this category because, among other things, its catalog “features women in lingerie.” Conveniently, the Guide even then provides a link to the online version of the lingerie catalog so that readers can be sure of what it is they’re crusading against!